Co-editor, with Peter Garside, et al. The English Novel, 1830–1836: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (Cardiff: Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, 2003). xx + 382 pp. Funded by the British Academy.

Co-editor, with Peter Garside, et al. The English Novel, 1830–1836: A Bibliographical Survey of Prose Fiction Published in the British Isles (Cardiff: Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, 2003). xx + 382 pp. Funded by the British Academy.

Journal articles and book chapters‘Gothic 2.0: Remixing Revenants in the Transmedia Age’, in The Gothic Compass: New Directions in Scholarship and Inquiry, ed. by Lorna-Piatti Farnell and Donna Lee Brien (London and New York: Routledge, 2015 forthcoming).

‘Bridging the Gap (of Sighs)? Fiction and Sensibility after 1800’, in From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria: Readings in 18th- and 19th-Century British Literature and Culture, vol. 2, ed. by Grazyna Bystydzienska and Emma Harris (Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2010), pp. 299–321.

Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague, ed. by Laura Moss (Ottawa: Tecumseh Press, 2001). In the British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16 (2003): 407. ISSN 0269-9222.

James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Edinburgh: Soft Editions, 2002). In Studies in Hogg and his World, 14 (2003): 133–35. ISSN 0960-6025.

Mary Waldron, Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time (CUP, 1999). In Notes and Queries,n.s. 47 (2000): 375–76.

Research

My research focuses principally on nineteenth-century literature and its engagement with contemporary print culture. I am also interested in the gothic, book history and digital humanities. I am Director of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research at Cardiff, and have developed a number of digital resources, including two databases, a bibliography of fiction 1830–36 and an online journal.

I have written books and essays on Jane Austen, the gothic, print culture and contemporary fiction. In 2009, I became one of the General Editors of the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, which is to be published in 39 volumes: the first wave of volumes will be appearing in early 2014.

Current and forthcoming research includes:

An invited journal article on monstrous medicine and teratology in Literature Compass (MS due for submission mid-2014).

An accepted book chapter on the male body in 19th-century medical gothic writing for The Male Body in Medicine and Literature, ed. by Andrew Mangham and Grace Depledge, to be published by Liverpool University Press (Ms due for submission summer 2014).

An invited book chapter on medical gothic and late-Victorian periodical fiction, Science and the Gothic, ed. by Alexandra Warwick and Martin Willis, to be published by EUP (MS due for submission autumn 2014).

A 230,000-word reference work, The Palgrave Guide to Gothic Publishing: The Business of Gothic Fiction, 1764–1835, which I have been contracted to co-author with Franz Potter and Nicola Lloyd (MS due spring 2015).

A collection of essays, Remapping Austen: Jane Austen in Europe and Beyond, which focuses on various aspects of Austen’s reception history, to be co-edited with Diego Saglia (Proposal currently in preparation).

As well as academic research, I have recently worked creatively as the academic lead in Jekyll 2.0: Embodying the Gothic Text, an AHRC-funded knowledge-transfer project which adapts Stevenson’s classic novella into a pervasive media experience driven by players’ bio-data.

I am currently co-investigator on WISE: What Is Scholarly Editing?, funded by the AHRC's Collaborative Research Skills Development scheme. This will comprise a series of workshops to be held in Cardiff, Durham and London between September 2014 and May 2015, which will train doctoral students and Early Career Researchers in the theory and practice of editing.

Biography

After completing my undergraduate degree in English Literature at the University of Durham, I came to Cardiff in 1995 to read an MA in English Literature, focusing principally on nineteenth-century literature and its engagement with print culture. My postgraduate studies concluded in 2001, with a PhD entitled ‘Jane Austen and the Production of Fiction, 1785–1817’.

Between 2001 and 2004, I was a postdoctoral research associate based in Cardiff’s Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (CEIR), which I co-founded with Professor Peter Garside in 1998. CEIR specialises in book history, print culture, and textual/bibliographical studies, and since its inception has been the hub for various grant-funded research projects, a programme of visiting speakers and a number of doctoral candidates. In 2004, I took up a Lectureship in English Literature at Cardiff, followed by promotions to Senior Lecturer (2009) and Reader in Print and Digital Cultures (2013). Since October 2013, I have been the Director of CEIR.

I teach undergraduate modules on Austen, the gothic and advanced research skills, and postgraduate courses on bibliography and textual studies. I have supervised numerous MA dissertations on Austen, the gothic and sensation fiction, and am currently supervising doctoral projects on sentimental discourse in the early nineteenth century; the idea of authorship in the Victorian era; drugs in late-Victorian Gothic fiction; digital humanities and book illustration; as well as second-supervising projects focusing on the history of the book.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and member of a number of academic societies, including the British Association for Romantic Studies; British Society for Literature and Science; European Society for Textual Scholarship; International Gothic Association; North American Society for the Study of Romanticism; and Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. I also sit on a number of editorial boards for journals and scholarly initiatives, as well as regularly peer reviewing submissions to various academic publications. Since 1998, I have presented over fifty conference papers, invited lectures and public talks, and will be co-organising (with Jane Moore) the 2015 British Association for Romantic Studies conference, entitled Romantic Imprints.